One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGreatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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These people really aim very badly.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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The future does not belong to men.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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